New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. Thick octavo (24 x 16.5 cm.), xi, 621, [1] pages. Index. Illustrated with line drawings by Karl Stuecklen. FIRST EDITION. One thousand new recipes from the great American icon "at the pinnacle of his career" (jacket copy), a followup to his Theory & Practice of Good Cooking (1977). Slightest fading to edges of publisher's printed glossy boards. Dust jacket spine a tiny bit sun.....
London: Ward and Lock, 158, Fleet Street, and all Booksellers, J.T. Norris, Printer, 128, Aldersgate Street, [circa 1856]. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), xvi, 398, [2] pages. Illustrated with three plates, one folding, and numerous illustrations in the text. Detailed index; glossary, ready reckoner. Publisher’s advertisements at rear. Date from information in advertisements. FIRST EDITION thus. A later edition, revised and re-titled, of the author’s Illustrated London Cookery Book. Foxing.....
London: William Heinemann, 1930. Octavo (23 x 15.5 cm.), viii, 72 pages. Top edge gilt. FIRST EDITION, number 64 of 75 numbered copies, signed by both authors. Marcel Boulestin was a French chef, restaurateur and author of cookbooks that popularized French cuisine in the English-speaking world. His London restaurant, the Restaurant Français, opened in 1927, and was known at the time as the most expensive in the city. In publisher’s.....
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 1859. Small octavo, 244, 24 pages. FIRST UK EDITION, and the first edition of the English language translation of Leonard Francis Simpson. The first English language translation was that of Fayette Robinson, published in Philadelphia in 1854. Simpson's translation here is quite unfaithful to the original, admitting in the Introduction that "Many parts are, however, condensed, others omitted, as not suited to the.....
[New York]: Castoria, Centaur Liniment, Dr. Wei De Meyer, [1883]. Duedecimo (15.25 x 10 cm.), 32 pages. Advertisements. Various small illustrations throughout. Product cookbook promoting Centaur's Castoria and Dr. Wei de Meyer's Catarrh Cure, with recipes "adapted from the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York". With testimonials, including one from P.T. Barnum. Some light spotting within. In red- and black-illustrated wrappers depicting "The Diver" with a small cord for hanging. Tiny.....
Biddeford, Maine: Rabelais Inc., 2018. Volume one only (all published to date). Small quarto (26.5 x 19 cm.), 169 pages. Illustrated throughout in color. Title Index. Bibliography. Designed and with a letterpressed wrapper by Scott Vile of the Ascensius Press in Bar Mills, Maine. FIRST EDITION. ~ ~ The first volume in a long-term effort to examine AMERICAN COMMUNITY COOKBOOKS as a genre, within a context of other cookbooks which.....
Stockholm: Nordiska Bokförlaget, 1909-1911. Octavo, 36 fascicles in 19, three pagination sequences. Lacking one signature, page 51-62 in Häft. 3-4. Complex pagination throughout. Eleven leaves with color illustrations. With advertisements on the covers. Serial publication boasting The Best of Everything: Library for Swedish Women; accretions gathered under three headings: I. Fråga mig! Handbok för hemmet; II. Praktisk kokbok för hemmet; III. Handbok i varukännedom. Signatures apparently intended for later separation.....
[Gloucester]: Procter Brothers, Publishers, 1882. Octavo (23 x 16 cm.), 274, [38] pages. Illustrated. Advertisements. ~ FIRST EDITION. An omnibus of information about the American seafood industry in the final decades of the 19th century, covering the fishermen and fishing industry of Gloucester, Massachusetts, at the tip of Cape Ann. The book contains lists of vessels operating; explains the value (economic, but also health-wise) of various types of seafood; tell.....
Philadelphia/New York: Curtis Publishing Company/Doubleday & McClure Co., 1898. Ladies' Home Journal Household Library. Duodecimo, 245 pages. Later printing. A pocket sized cookbook from the founder of the Philadelphia School of Cookery, and a member of the staffs of both Ladies Home Journal and Good Housekeeping. Some light foxing throughout, otherwise very good. In publisher's gilt- and green-stamped dark green cloth. [Not in Cagle].
late 1500s. Engraving, (23.5 x 29.5 cm. image dimensions). Signed in lower part of impression, "Bassan. inuet. loa. Sadeler sc." and CU. priuil. S. Caes. M." and ex S. Lvc. xvi. cap." Lacking the legend below the image. One of Sadeler's three "Kitchen" scenes, this one with Lazaraus seen from behind at right with two dogs,, seated and looking at a dinner table with the rich man, a kitchen with.....